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Portrait
#550
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Subject/Title:
| Alexander, Sarah Gilbert |
| Artist: | Unknown |
| Date Created: | ca. 1890 |
| Owner/Location: | Private Collection |
| Frame Dimensions: | 33 x 25 |
| Image Dimensions: | 30 x 21.5 |
| Materials/Media: | oil on canvas |
| Date Documented: | 11/29/2004 |
| Condition: | Fair |
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| Description: | Waist-length of a woman in a white high-collared dress trimmed in light blue. Her light auburn curls are piled on her head. Hands gathered in her lap, but not visible. |
| History of Work: | "Prepared by F.W. Devoh & Co." printed on reverse. Family lore has it that the painting was altered to hide the subject's decolletage. |
| Notes: | Subject was born 1/26/1826 and died 11/1/1897. She was married to Alexander Robert Lawton who was Minister to Austria. Source: The Alexander Letter from 1787-1900, 2002 ed.
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